![The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explained from History [Vols II - IV]. Abbé...](/pictures/thumb/001616.jpg?v=1605034186)
London: A. Millar, 1740. Vols II - IV only (missing Vol I). Octavos; II: xx, 619pp +2pp ads; III: [x], 491pp +1pp ads; IV: [viii], 458pp +[140pp] index. Rebound in uniform later brown cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Ex-libris stamp of the Paulist Fathers Library of Washington, D.C. on..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983. First Edition. Octavo. 258 pages. Green boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards discolored from damptaining, but effects largely cosmetic. Rear board slightly bowed. Preliminaries a bit wavy. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Pages unmarked. More
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1972. Quarto; publisher's blue-grey cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt; lxiii,[1],335pp.; chiefly photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, stock very slightly toned, discreet ex libris to front pastedown, else Near Fine. First published in 1912. More
Birmingham: W.J. Cosby / Universal Press, 1893. Re-issue of the 1822 Triphook and Rodd Edition, limited to 600 copies (one of 500 on antique paper). Octavo (9" x 6.35"); xix, 213p +5p "Passages Suppressed" addendum. Rebound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. in dark green leather with blindstamped branch decoration..... More
![The Gods of Greece [Signed and with ALS to William Safire]. Arianna Stassinopoulos, Roloff Beny,...](/pictures/thumb/6602.jpeg?v=1596821069)
New York: Harry C. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Stassinopoulos on title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Bill and Helene, / with my love, / Arianna / 15th August 1983." Additional autographed letter signed taped to front free endpaper and reads, "Dear Bill..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First thus. Octavo. 319 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Koestler's first book, originally published in 1939, is the story of Spartacus and the slave revolt of 73-71 BCE. First in Koestler's political trilogy of idealism gone wrong, along..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1925. First Edition. Two Octavo Volumes. xv, 328 pp.; xv, 424 pp. All plates and illustrations present. Volume One is red brick cloth and stamped in black. Volume Two in same with spine stamped in gilt and front blind stamped. Lacking dust jackets... More
Le Caire [Cairo]: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1913. First Edition. Folio. 131 p.; lxxi plates. Profusely illustrated in text plus 71 black and white plates to rear. Wrapper title in French and English, but rest of text in English. Printed wraps. Aylward was a British Egyptologist..... More
New York: American Book Company, 1900. First Edition. Signed "by the author" with inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper. Octavo. 190 pages. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Text in Greek and English. Gildersleeve was a soldier for the Confederacy in the Civil War and would go on..... More
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall..... More
[London: Phaidon, 2001]. First Edition. Quarto (25cm.); publisher's textured boards in decorative dust jacket; xi,[12]-352pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, a few tiny scratches to spine, shallow crease at top fore-edge of front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. More
New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pages. Prinetd dust jacket with Rs 10.00 price inact. Beige boards with spine stamped in black. Dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges and toned at spine and edges. Boards are heavily foxed, and lightly worn at edges..... More
![The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Twelve Volumes]. Edward Gibbon](/pictures/thumb/6315.jpg?v=1593098265)
London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1806. "A New Edition." Twelve Octavo Volumes Complete. Frontis portrait and two fold-out maps to volumes 1 and 2. Full contemporary tree-calf with black and red labels and gilt decoration to spine. Worn along edges, with bumping to corners and some loss to..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. 12mo (16cm.); full contemporary maroon morocco by Bayntun, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, gilt dentelles (offsetting to endpapers), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; xli,[1],190pp.; frontispiece. Leather a bit rubbed and darkened at extremities, especially along joints, paper flaw to front pastedown from previously removed ex..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo. 211 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over gray boards with brown lettering to spine. Jacket is lightly rubbed along edges, with some faint scuffing to front and rear panels. Boards are sturdy and clean. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: Platt & Peck Company, 1915. Octavo. 186 pages. Purple boards stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Beige dust jacket stamped in black with "$2.00" price on spine. Dust jacket is heavily chipped at edges and stained, with back panel cleanly separated along spine. Boards worn at extremities..... More
![Archaeologia Graeca, or the Antiquities of Greece [William Safire Copy; Two Volumes]. John Potter](/pictures/thumb/6323.jpg?v=1591294856)
Edinburgh: Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson: and for J. Nunn [et al.], 1808. Two Octavo Volumes. 521 pages + Index; 418 pages + Index. 28 black and white plates (2 in volume one; 22 in volume two) portraying the government, military, and sports of Ancient Greece. Full speckled calf gilt tooled..... More
Bristol, [UK]: Printed for J. Brooks, the Editor, by S. Farley, 1770. 12mo. xxvi, 325 p. Full contemporary speckled calf ruled in gilt with red leather spine label. A collection of maxims and aphorisms, first published under the title "Politeuphuia" and attributed to Nicholas Ling. Spine ends are..... More
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; viii,416pp. Corners bumped with very brief exposure, spine gilt a bit dulled, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and fresh. More
Paris: Guy le Prat, n.d., ca. 1947. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's limp tan boards printed in brown; [2],110pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A bit of toning to boards and textblock, bump to top edge of rear cover, small chip to top fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 339 pages. 4 fold-out maps to rear. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Green cloth over marbled paper covered boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Moderate wear to boards; cracked at bottom corners and spine ends. Cracked at hinge but binding is sound..... More
Hofheim am Taunus: H. Schmidt and C. Günther, [c.1980]. Reprint Edition of Third Expanded and Illustration Edition, originally published between 1922 and 1928 in Frankfurt and Berlin. Octavo; Vol I Germany A-C xxxv + 338pp; Vol II Germany D- M xi + 405pp; Vol III Germany N-Z xii + 429pp;..... More
Milano: Nicolò Bettoni, 1828. Two volumes in one; 24mo (12.5cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, elaborately gilt-tooled spine, all edges speckled; 163, 141pp. Light wear to spine edges with tiny chips at crown, small early 20th-century private library spine label, faint foxing to preliminaries, else a Very Good, internally fresh copy..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],228pp.; illus. and maps in text. Jacket a bit edge worn with short closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not approaching text, ownership pressure stamp to front free endpaper, else Very..... More
![Un Bal chez les Étoiles [A Dance Among the Stars]. Mathilde Vonwiller, Colette Sauter](/pictures/thumb/5835.jpg?v=1576609380)
Lausanne: Roth et Sauter / Au Verseau, 1966. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated [32pp]. Thirty-two full-layout illustrated pages with incorporated "hand cursive" text. Bound in stiff card with deep reverse flaps. Binding and pages printed throughout in wedgewood blue on off-white, with text in red. Entirely in French. Binding edge-folds..... More